
Journal of Urban Archaeology 10 (2024)
High-Definition Urban Archaeology
- Pages: 138 p.
- Size:216 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:12 b/w, 45 col., 6 tables b/w., 3 maps b/w, 9 maps color
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2024
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-60868-6
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The methods that are applied in excavation and research determine the nature of the data that is produced. Over the course of the last decade, a string of fieldwork projects have cultivated and developed high-definition approaches in urban excavations, creating new datasets and analytical efforts that are pushing urban archaeology into new territory, and extending our capacity to explore dynamics that were previously beyond our observational range. Such developments concern digital spatial records, contextual geoarchaeology, more detailed timescales, and the growing scope of material analysis. Key to a high-definition approach, however, is integration, and it is why this is particularly fruitful when applied to the complex and rich data from urban sites. This special issue of Journal of Urban Archaeology is dedicated to the current evolution of ‘high-definition’ field archaeological methods in urban environments. The papers gathered here explore and exemplify the application of high-definition approaches to urban archaeology, and present a panorama and review that aims to stimulate inspiration and debates across regional and chronological fields.
List of Illustrations
Situating High-Definition Archaeology in Urban Archaeological Practice
Rubina Raja and Søren M. Sindbæk
The Impact of Archaeological Practice on the Study of Roman-Period Urbanism in the Near East
Michael Blömer, Olympia Bobou, and Rubina Raja
Plazas, Social Class, and Spatial Inequality at Ancient Teotihuacan, Mexico
Alexandra L. Norwood, Anne Sherfield, and Michael E. Smith
Lübeck: An Urban Shifting Process
Dirk Rieger
The Çatalhöyük Research Project as a High-Definition Research Environment for the Study of ‘Urbanization’
James Taylor
Urbanity as Social Practice: A High-Definition Perspective on the Emergence of Urban Life in Medieval Odense and Copenhagen
Hanna Dahlström and Kirstine Haase
Shattered Economies: The Role of Glass Fragments in Early Roman Wall Mosaics as a Factor in Understanding Aspects of the Roman Economy and Society
Cristina Boschetti and Rubina Raja